Dear Carol: You’ve addressed this before, but I need help. I’m 73 and feel like I’m continually under scrutiny as my adult children watch for signs that I’m incompetent. I understand that age ...

Measuring overall physical and mental abilities through intrinsic capacity can predict memory decline years before symptoms ...

Cognition holds because difficulty demands patience. What happens when AI no longer requires us to sustain engagement and ...

Having a smartphone nearby reduces cognitive capacity, even when the phone is turned off, new research shows. A team of investigators led by Adrian Ward, PhD, assistant professor, McCombs School of ...

The illusion of transparency, which we discussed in our introductory post on cognitive kindness, is perhaps a lesser known aspect of how our minds work. A more commonly discussed idea, supported by ...

Lockdown and other restrictions imposed to control the COVID-19 pandemic have had unseen negative effects on the cognitive capacity and mental health of the population. A study led by the UOC's ...

Dear Carol: In general, around what age should older people stop managing their own finances? When should they stop driving? Do doctors check older people for cognitive problems at checkups? My ...

Only about 1 in 4 Americans said that they had trust in the nation's institutions in 2023—with big business (1 in 7), television news (1 in 7) and Congress (1 in 12) scraping the very bottom. When a ...

Many of the cognitive capacities that humans use for cooking -- a preference for cooked food, the ability to understand the transformation of raw food into cooked food, and even the ability to save ...